rosebuds 🌹 pjm + kth

holly

9:27 AM
GARDEN
TAEHYUNG
LIKES WHAT
HE SEES.

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BREATHING. shivers had cascaded down the lengths of taehyung's leaves, lightly flapping around in the snowflake basked mist overcoming the horizon in an ivory slit. the skies had punctured his thorny spikes along the shaft of his leaves, leaving icy kisses along the rim of his stem. a milky substance dampened the insides of his fingers, reddened with the briskness of tufts of grass lingering underneath his view.

although the cold managed to numb his senses, eyes gliding over the landscape full of flowers and plants surrounding him, the warmth as equivalent to one of a honey glazed sun raging against his upper thigh had arrived. a smile etched itself onto his lips accordingly, head twisting ever so slightly to observe the boy with the leaves frosted in a minty green, thorns popped and eyes frothy over into waves of a cruel azure blue, stricken with the waves lapping onto the ankles of the wettened sand of the beach taehyung always dreamed up. hair curled up with the scenery of snowflakes dangling above each strand, taehyung's eyes found melancholy in him, tightening the pulse in his core and pumping a dull ache through the calamity of his throat.

taehyung frowned, however. once his hair was brown, it would rotate to an eerie black, greasy with the remains of charcoal rocks that had fallen from the chimnies, dusting him with ashy residue that resembled the liquid black of space, stardust clinging to the edges of his eyes amongst rosy cheeks, blushes admitting to cough medicine. the boy shuffled closer, tugging on his leaves and intertwining his fingers with his own, the chubbiness surrounding his leaves reminiscent of the fat of a baby. taehyung couldn't hold back his childish grin, digging his leaves into the boy's back and snuggling him underneath the brazen light, heat coursing his roots, spindly thorns scratching the boy.

"when you hold me, i feel like i'm home. even when you're a stranger."

taehyung stayed silent, cupping the boy's chin with the base of his palm, basking in the lemon and limeade scent resonating from the boy's neck, pressing his chrysanthemum colored lips against his collarbone to the sound of the flowers snickering echoing against the snowfall drifting lazily amongst the atmosphere. the boy gulped, staring up into taehyung's blank, yet meaningful eyes, hands dancing on the edges of his shoulders.

"identities are temporary. we all change somehow."

the boy clung to the thick meter of his stem, crawling up the surface of his shivering antenna. warmth filled him like hot cocoa steaming from being in a microwave for too long; against his skin, he found flaws in his ambered pupils that transformed his heart to the water spritzed into the soil underneath them. he gasped, the iciness overcoming him completely. the flowers had shifted into a cherry translucency, edges scraped with the withering effect caused by the beating of the fall, drizzling heavy groans accompanying the hazy touch of a season, crushing the petals into nothing more of shreds.

taehyung gulped, caressing the boy, whom had fallen asleep beside him, forgetting that his stem would break if he continued to bend himself into such a position. the beauty of the flowers distracted him from watching the boy, as they were now whispering apologies to one another, of how they tried their best to survive. solemnness of the eldest one piqued a whizz of uncontrollable shivers down the ridge of his spine, alas his frightened eyes; who would think weakness could equate to beauty.

slumped over into a tall stalk, petals dropping one by one coated in summer sadness. carmine mouths revealing spittles of substance, watering can resting hitched above them in that hardened cerulean, swishing its water thick enough to burn silt to rivers.

"stranger, i hope the flowers know that we can be beautiful, just like them too. if we drop dead, it will be of the summer found in their petals."

the boy stirred in his sleep, cuddling next to him softly, mumbling that he could never be beautiful. taehyung watched the snowflakes cover his angry reponses and drifted away with him.